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For this purpose I employed, says this able Experimentalist, five small 
pots of Dutch-ware, each of which I filled with water, and put into it but 
one kind of seed. 
A coating of tin-foil was attached, both inside and outside, to form the 
electric communication, and the opening of each vase was shut with a cork, 
carefully varnished. 
These five vases were afterwards put into an electric jar, which I had 
arranged as an electric magazine, and its orifice was enclosed by a large cork, 
covered over its whole surface with sealing-wax: and this cork was bored in 
the middle to receive a glass hollow tube, which descended to the bottom of 
the jar. The whole was afterwards varnished with green wax. 
This apparatus was electrified for two days, with the exception of the 
nights. After the second day, the seeds were sown in the open ground in 
the same part of the garden, in little squares, divided each into two parts, 
A and B, for the seeds, which were electrified, and for those not so. Pre¬ 
caution was taken that every circumstance should resemble: hence the seeds 
were taken out of the same bag, these were shaken together, before they were 
taken out, and divided into two parcels, and they were put into' similar pots, 
but placed out of the electric communication. Of each sort ten grains were 
sown. 1 observed in the pots marked, 
A. The lupins electrfied opened the ground on the fifth day after being 
sown, about two o’clock, and by seven o’clock seven of the same seeds began 
to appear, the cotyledons becoming visible. On the sixth day the remain¬ 
der appeared like the rest in the morning. On the seventh day, the coty¬ 
ledons were more open, and separated, and discovered the leaves of the plume. 
By the eighth day, these leaves were progressively developed, and gradually 
increased in size. 
B. The lupins not electrified, did not appear before the seventh day in 
the morning, and then only three; in the evening two others shewed them¬ 
selves. On the eighth day in the morning, four others, the remainder at 
twelve the same time. Their developement was progressive, but all the ten 
did not advance equally with the others. 
Not to fatigue my readers with too much repetition of the same kind, I 
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